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A new day has dawned for the Church that Jesus is building!
God is doing a New Thing!
We believe the Head of the Church, Jesus, is calling the Church into a
new dimension of the Spirit. The gateway into that new dimension of
the Spirit is a "new" ministry
model. It is "new" in the natural realm, in that it is
a new paradigm to many existing churches. Though, it certainly is not new in the Spirit realm,
since it is the ministry
model that has always been delineated in God's Word.
A major part of the purposes and plans of God now revealed to the Church is
a mandate that the Church begin to embrace and pursue the Ephesians Four
Ministry Model delineated in the Fourth Chapter of the
Ephesians Epistle (see at right). It is a ministry model in which all
the Fivefold Ministry Offices are functioning, and flowing together
in concerted effort to accomplish the purposes and plans of God—that
is, the ongoing ministry of Jesus.
Indeed, the Ephesians Four
Ministry Model is the only model that will produce the results of
the building up (edifying) and building (development) of the local
church, both individually and corporately, that are delineated in
the Ephesians Four text. How do we know that? Because it's the
only model that God says in His Word will generate those results.
The foundational tenet of The Ephesians
Four Network is the Ephesians Four
Ministry Model. The establishment of that
Model in the Church Jesus is building—not merely in theory, but in
practice—is our overarching purpose and goal
to which we are committed.
The foundational premise of the Ephesians Four
Ministry Model is the colaboring together of the Fivefold
Ministry Offices (apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and
teachers) in harmonious concerted effort to equip, edify, educate,
train, and mentor, the saints (believers) for the work of ministry,
which will result in the building up and building out of the Church
Jesus is building, until it comes unto the status of "a mature man, to the measure
of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ" (Eph.
4:13); that is, ultimate spiritual maturity.
The primary objective of this Model is to
establish the Kingdom of Christ in believers, resulting in
the Church being established in the Kingdom of Christ, which
will bring about the return of Christ to claim the Glorified Church
as His Eternal Bride. To achieve that objective, Fivefold Ministers
must educate and immerse the Church in the Gospel of the Kingdom,
contrasted to the gospel of churchianity that is concerned
with filling churches with people rather than filling people with
the Kingdom. The Gospel of the Kingdom
equips believers to replicate and surpass the supernatural works
Jesus performed during His fleshly ministry. The Gospel of the
Kingdom will propel the Church into the double-portion
Elisha Anointing.
Ephesians Four Ministry Model
churches are characterized by the following traits, which are
delineated in our foundational passage of Ephesians 4:11-16.
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Recognize all five ministry giftings (apostle, prophet, evangelist,
pastor, teacher) as being operable today within the local church and
vital to the individual and corporate "building up" of the
church, spiritually and numerically;
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Recognize these ministry giftings are the chief offices through which
the Head of the Church imparts spiritual impartation and leadership to
the church;
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Regularly receive impartation from each of those giftings;
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Espouse and employ the concept that these ministry giftings are given
to the church for "the equipping of the saints for the work of
service (ministry)," which metaphorically means that the saints are
the players (ministers) and the Fivefold Ministers are the coaches who
train, guide, instruct, and mentor the players;
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Make an ongoing concerted effort to develop and activate the resident element of
believers whose motivation and giftings coincide with those ministry
giftings;
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Recognize that it is the efforts and endeavors, or functioning, of the
properly equipped and released saints that results in "the building
up of the body of Christ" and "the whole body, being fitted
and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the
proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body
for the building up of itself in love."
If you are a Fivefold Minister, church, or ministry, and agree with our beliefs and mission of encouraging Fivefold Ministers to work together for the accomplishment of the purposes and plans of God, and would like to become a member of our network, please go to the Contact Us page, and complete and submit the form there. Membership is free.
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Ephesians 4:4-16
There is one body and one Spirit, just
as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
one God and Father of all who is over
all and through all and in all. But to each one of us grace was given
according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it says,
"When He ascended on high,
He led captive a host of captives,
And He gave gifts to men."
(Now this expression, "He
ascended," what does it mean except that He also had
descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is Himself also He
who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might
fill all things.) And He gave some as apostles, and
some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as
pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for
the work of service, to the building up of the body of
Christ; until we all attain to the unity of
the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a
mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to
the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be
children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about
by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by
craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we
are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head,
even Christ, from whom the whole body, being
fitted and held together by what every joint supplies,
according to the proper working of each individual part,
causes the growth of the body for the building up of
itself in love. |
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